Sir Geoffrey Boycott “cannot eat or drink” after developing pneumonia following cancer surgery, his daughter Emma has said.
The 83-year-old cricket legend underwent a procedure to “remove throat cancer” on Wednesday.
After the three-hour operation, the surgeon reported that it “went well,” Emma Boycott said.
He was discharged on Friday with “lots of painkillers and a liquid-only diet for the foreseeable.”
His father was “recovering”, Boycott said, and looking forward to seeing England play the West Indies and the Open golf.
But in a further update on X on Sunday afternoon, she said: “Unfortunately things have taken a turn for the worse and my father has developed pneumonia and is unable to eat or drink.”
That means he’s “back in the hospital with oxygen and a feeding tube for the foreseeable.”
She added: “Thank you everyone for the well wishes, we were overwhelmed by the sheer number of them.”
Sir Geoffrey revealed a second cancer diagnosis earlier this month after undergoing extensive chemotherapy in 2002.
The former Yorkshire and England batsman scored 8,114 runs in 108 Tests for his country – including 22 centuries – between 1964 and 1982.
He accumulated 48,426 first-class runs in total over two decades.
When his international career ended, he was the top Test scorer and was awarded an OBE for services to cricket.
After retiring in 1986, he spent 14 years working on the BBC’s Test Match Special.
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